obtest

PRONUNCIATION:

(ob-TEST)

MEANING:

verb tr.1. To invoke as a witness. 2. To implore or beseech.verb intr. 3. To protest. 4. To plead.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin obtestari (to implore, affirm, protest), from ob- (on, over),
from testari (to bear witness or to make a will), from testis (witness).
Ultimately from the Indo-European root trei- (three), which is also the
source of three, sitar, trivia (from trivium, place where three roads meet),
trivial, troika, trivet, testimony, testament, attest, testify (to be the
third person: to bear witness), triskaidekaphobia
(fear of the number 13),
tercel (the male of a hawk), and
trammel (restraint, shackle, net).
Earliest documented use: 1548.